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The Motley Fool’s Beyers: Everybody hates Microsoft’s Windows Vista

“Do computer users hate Windows Vista?” Tim Beyers asks for The Motley Fool.

“I’m asking because, well, analysts are asking. They’re wondering why Microsoft’s operating-systems division produced just $4.03 billion in first-quarter revenue, $300 million less than the consensus estimate, according to The New York Times,” Beyers reports.

“Gartner researchers might say it’s because businesses have been slow to adopt Vista. Mr. Softy, by contrast, says there is no problem, claiming to have sold 140 million copies of the OS,” Beyers reports. “Is the revolt against Vista real? Or is it hooey, as Microsoft asserts? Let’s turn to the web for the answer. A search for the phrase ‘I hate Vista’ brought back:”

• 5,620 hits at Ask.com
• 42,200 hits at Google
• 149,000 hits at Yahoo!
• And 26,800 hits at Microsoft’s own Live.com.

Beyers writes, “There you have it. Some users hate Vista. Very, very much.”

Beyers reports, “But it gets worse. Searching Google for ‘I hate Windows’ returns 60,800 hits…. ‘I hate Mac OS X’ returns a measly 585 hits.”

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Joe Architect” for the heads up.]

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